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Example sentences for "sudden thought"

  • Bernard was about to leave the room, when he turned as if struck by a sudden thought.

  • Perhaps he wanted to have it found on me," suggested Bernard, with a sudden thought.

  • Then a sudden thought came to Mr. Sanderson.

  • As if struck by a sudden thought, she turned back to the bedside again.

  • He wheeled sharply around, as though struck by a sudden thought.

  • Struck by a sudden thought, he dropped the trinket back on the carpet.

  • First then, I am of opinion, that rhyme is unnatural in a play, because dialogue there is presented as the effect of sudden thought.

  • Had a sudden thought in church of a minister preaching in a pulpit and a fiend waiting to carry him off to hell.

  • When I lay down to take my nap before dinner, I had a sudden thought-vision of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  • No," I agreed; and then a sudden thought occurred to me.

  • And then a sudden thought brought me bolt upright.

  • Then, as I took down my hat, a sudden thought struck me.

  • He ran his fingers over the inlay, and then, struck by a sudden thought, tested each of the little figures along the tympanum, but they were all set solidly in place.

  • Anthea, struck by a sudden thought, and pointing to the fence.

  • Anthea, made anxious by a sudden thought.

  • A play being the imitation of nature, dialogue is there presented as the effect of sudden thought; and since no man without premeditation speaks in rhyme, neither ought he to do it on the stage.

  • On my way to the hotel I was struck by a sudden thought: Senor Ramal could not be my brother or my cousin would have recognized him!

  • Struck by a sudden thought, I signaled to Harry; and when he had moved further back into his corner I sprang across the room in one bound to his side.

  • Then, struck by a sudden thought, I crossed to where she stood behind a stone seat in the corner.

  • With a sudden thought that it would make me a curio, I reached up to see whether I could break it away from the tree; but it was above my reach, so that I had to leave it.

  • A sudden thought came to him, and a stifled gasp of alarm rose up to his lips.

  • A sudden thought came to Dave, and he tried a new way of getting on the good side of the surly German corporal.

  • Then, on sudden thought, he kicked aside a coil of greasy rope, and turned his head toward the old man.

  • I said, as a sudden thought occurred to me.

  • A sudden thought came to Zuleika, filling her with intense amazement.

  • As they were about to remove him from the witness stand a sudden thought occurred to him, and with a herculean effort he straightened himself up, making a sign to the Court that he had something further to communicate.

  • But," said Maximilian, as a sudden thought occurred to him and filled him with dismay, "Dr.

  • Then, as if struck by a sudden thought, "How long will you be out of town?

  • A sudden thought occurred to her, and going to Madeline's door, she tapped gently.

  • A sudden thought seemed to enter his head.

  • A sudden thought struck me, and, fixing on that which was most under me, I dropped my legs astride of him, embracing his hump, and clutching the long woolly hair that grew upon his neck.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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